IP Library Granted Patent US 9,097,188
Granted Patent B2
US 9,097,188 · App. 12/999,374 · Granted Aug 4, 2015

Gas turbine device

Inventors: Hiroshi Tanabe (Hyogo, JP); Noboru Hisaka (Hyogo, JP)
Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
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Patent No.
US 9,097,188
App. No.
12/999,374
Granted
Aug 4, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

The disclosure provides a gas turbine device capable of producing a mixed gas in which three or more types of gases are evenly mixed, and of doing the like. To achieve this, in a gas turbine device configured to burn in a combustor a fuel gas supplied from a fuel gas supplier, together with a compressed air supplied from an air compressor, and to rotationally drive a gas turbine by a combustion gas generated at the burning, the fuel gas supplier includes two mixers, and is configured to produce a mixed gas by mixing three types of gases of a first gas, a second gas, and a third gas in the mixers in ascending order of specific gravity or in descending order of specific gravity, and to supply the mixed gas to the combustor as the fuel gas.

Claims (34)

1. A gas turbine device configured to burn in a combustor a fuel gas supplied from a fuel gas supplier, together with a compressed air supplied from an air compressor, and to rotationally drive a gas turbine by a combustion gas generated at the burning,

wherein the fuel gas supplier includes a plurality of mixers, and is configured to produce a mixed gas by mixing three or more types of gases in the mixers in ascending order of specific gravity or in descending order of specific gravity, and to supply the mixed gas to the combustor via a fuel supply line as the fuel gas, and

wherein the fuel gas supplier is configured to include:

a hydrogen/oxygen sensor that detects a hydrogen concentration and an oxygen concentration in the mixed gas;

a diluent gas mixer that mixes, into the mixed gas, a diluent gas for diluting the hydrogen concentration and the oxygen concentration; and

a controller that causes the diluent gas mixer to operate to mix the diluent gas into the mixed gas when the hydrogen concentration and the oxygen concentration detected by the hydrogen/oxygen sensor become equal to or more than a set value;

a remixer that performs remixing by agitating the mixed gas; and

an emergency discharge valve provided in the fuel supply line,

wherein

the controller causes the emergency discharge valve to operate to discharge the mixed gas when the hydrogen concentration and the oxygen concentration detected by the hydrogen/oxygen sensor become equal to or more than a set value,

the location where the mixed gas is discharged is the emergency discharge valve, and

the mixed gas is discharged from the emergency discharge valve when the emergency discharge valve is made to operate.

2. The gas turbine device according to claim 1 , wherein the diluent gas mixer is configured to mix, into the mixed gas, part of the combustion gas exhausted from the gas turbine as the diluent gas.

3. The gas turbine device according to claim 1 , wherein the fuel gas supplier is configured to perform the mixing of the diluent gas by the diluent gas mixer at a position downstream of the hydrogen/oxygen sensor.

4. The gas turbine device according to claim 1 , further comprising a gas compressor that compresses the mixed gas and supplies the mixed gas thus compressed to the combustor,

wherein the fuel gas supplier is configured to perform the mixing of the diluent gas by the diluent gas mixer at a position upstream of the gas compressor.

5. The gas turbine device according to claim 1 , wherein the fuel gas supplier is configured to perform the discharge of the mixed gas by the emergency discharge valve at a position downstream of the hydrogen/oxygen sensor.

6. The gas turbine device according to claim 1 , further comprising a gas compressor that compresses the mixed gas and supplies the mixed gas thus compressed to the combustor;

wherein the fuel gas supplier is configured to perform the discharge of the mixed gas by the emergency discharge valve at a position upstream of the gas compressor.

7. The gas turbine device according to claim 1 , wherein the fuel gas supplier is configured to include:

a controller configured to cause that causes the remixer to operate to remix the mixed gas when the hydrogen concentration and the oxygen concentration detected by the hydrogen/oxygen sensor become equal to or more than a set value.

8. The gas turbine device according to claim 7 , wherein the fuel gas supplier is configured to perform the remixing of the mixed gas by the remixer at a position downstream of the hydrogen/oxygen sensor.

9. The gas turbine device according to claim 1 wherein at least two of the plurality of mixers of the fuel gas supplier are upstream from the remixer.

10. The gas turbine device according to claim 1 wherein the gas turbine device is a combined cycle power generating device including a steam turbine, a combustor, an electrical generator, a gas compressor, an exhaust heat recovery boiler, and wherein the gas turbine, the steam turbine, the air compressor, the electrical generator and the gas compressor are disposed on the same rotary shaft, wherein the air compressor, the electrical generator and the gas compressor are rotationally driven by the gas turbine and the steam turbine.

11. A gas turbine device configured to burn in a combustor a fuel gas supplied from a fuel gas supplier, together with a compressed air supplied from an air compressor, and to rotationally drive a gas turbine by a combustion gas generated at the burning,

wherein the fuel gas supplier includes a plurality of mixers, and is configured to produce a mixed gas by mixing three or more types of gases in the mixers in ascending order of specific gravity or in descending order of specific gravity, and to supply the mixed gas to the combustor as the fuel gas, and

wherein the fuel gas supplier is configured to include:

a hydrogen/oxygen sensor that detects a hydrogen concentration and an oxygen concentration in the mixed gas;

an emergency discharge valve provided in the fuel line; and

a controller that causes the emergency discharge valve to operate to discharge the mixed gas when the hydrogen concentration and the oxygen concentration detected by the hydrogen/oxygen sensor become equal to or more than a set value; and

a remixer that performs remixing by agitating the mixed gas.

12. The gas turbine device according to claim 11 , wherein the fuel gas supplier is configured to perform the discharge of the mixed gas by the emergency discharge valve at a position downstream of the hydrogen/oxygen sensor.

13. The gas turbine device according to claim 11 , further comprising a gas compressor that compresses the mixed gas and supplies the mixed gas thus compressed to the combustor;

wherein the fuel gas supplier is configured to perform the discharge of the mixed gas by the emergency discharge valve at a position upstream of the gas compressor.

Assignments (4)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE REMOVING PATENT APPLICATION NUMBER 11921683 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 054975 FRAME: 0438. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded May 26, 2023
From: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
Reel/Frame 063787/0867 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 13, 2021
From: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
Reel/Frame 054975/0438 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 23, 2015
From: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 035060/0615 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 4, 2011
From: TANABE, HIROSHI; HISAKA, NOBORU
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 025745/0695 →
Continuity (1)
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